The Governor sent from _St. Jago_ his nephew _Don Carlos_, with the ships in company of _Donna Isabella_ to tarry for him at _Havana_, which is a haven in the west part toward the head of the island, one hundred and eighty leagues from the city of _St. Jago_. The Governor, and those which stayed with him, bought horses and proceeded on their journey. The first town they came unto was _Bayamo_: they were lodged four and four, and six and six, as they went in company, and where they lodged, they took nothing for their diet, for nothing cost them aught save the maize or corn for their horses, because the Governor went to visit them from town to town, and seized them in the tribute and service of the Indians. _Bayamo_ is twenty-five leagues from the city of _St. Jago_. Near unto the town passeth a great river which is called _Tanto_; it is greater than _Guadiana_, and in it be very great crocodiles, which sometimes hurt the Indians, or the cattle which passeth the river. In all the country are neither wolf, fox, bear, lion, nor tiger. There are wild dogs which go from the houses into the woods and feed upon swine. There be certain snakes as big as a man's thigh or bigger; they are very slow, they do no kind of hurt. From _Bayamo_ to _Puerto de los Principes_ are fifty leagues. In all the island from town to town, the way is made by stubbing up the underwood; and if it be left but one year undone, the wood groweth so much that the way cannot be seen, and the paths of the oxen are so many, that none can travel without an Indian of the country for a guide: for all the rest is very high and thick woods. From _Puerto de los Principes_ the Governor went to the house of _Vasquez Porcallo_ by sea in a boat (for it was near the sea) to know there some news of _Donna Isabella_, which at that instant (as afterwards was known) was in great distress, insomuch that the ships lost one another, and two of them fell on the coast of _Florida_, and all of them endured great want of water and victuals. When the storm was over, they met together without knowing where they were: in the end they descried the Cape of _St. Anton_, a country not inhabited of the island of _Cuba_; there they watered, and at the end of forty days, which were passed since their departure from the city of _St. Jago_, they arrived at _Havana_. The Governor was presently informed thereof, and went to _Donna Isabella_. And those which went by land, which were one hundred and fifty horsemen, being divided into two parts, because they would not oppress the inhabitants, traveled by _St. Espirito_, which is sixty leagues from _Puerto de los Principes_. The food which they carried with them was _Cacabe_ bread, which is that whereof I made mention before: and it is of such a quality that if it be wet it breaketh presently, whereby it happened to some to eat flesh without bread for many days. They carried dogs with them, and a man of the country, which did hunt;